The Changing Face of Television with Brian Rose (Zoom)

Watching television used to be a fairly simple enterprise – you turned on the set, selected one of many channels, and enjoyed your program. Now, television is changing in front of our eyes. More and more viewers are canceling cable television, preferring to watch new online-only channels like Netflix or Disney Plus. An entire generation of younger viewers has given up on the TV set altogether, and instead watch programs on their laptops or their phones. And tens of thousands of kids and teenagers have started their own “channels” on YouTube.

This presentation, by lecturer Brian Rose, will look at these startling developments and explain why the old days of simply “watching TV” are fast disappearing.

Hosted on Zoom. Free and open to all.

This program is a collaboration between Warner Library, Orangeburg Library, Pearl River Public Library, and Florida Public Library.